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Steve Ballmer Interview

Ben: David, Steve gave us the signed Clippers jersey with the name Acquired on it. There’s only one jersey. What are we going to do about this? David: Should we rock paper scissors for it? You know what? You keep it. There’s no Seattle basketball team. Keep it there up north. Ben: All right. It’ll go in the Acquired museum north. David: Great. Ben: Perfect. All right, let’s do it. David: Let’s do it. Ben: Welcome to episode one of the Summer 2025 season of Acquired, the podcast about great

The Steve Ballmer Interview

Ben: David, Steve gave us the signed Clippers jersey with the name Acquired on it. There’s only one jersey. What are we going to do about this? David: Should we rock paper scissors for it? You know what? You keep it. There’s no Seattle basketball team. Keep it there up north. Ben: All right. It’ll go in the Acquired museum north. David: Great. Ben: Perfect. All right, let’s do it. David: Let’s do it. Ben: Welcome to episode one of the Summer 2025 season of Acquired, the podcast about great

At the top of the market, EV hypercars are a disappearing breed

Ford provided flights from Albany to San Francisco and accommodation so Ars could attend Monterey Car Week. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Monterey Car Week is an annual celebration of automotive culture at the extremes: extreme performance, extreme rarity, and extreme value. Cars offering more than 1,000 hp (746 kW) are de rigueur, "unique" models are everywhere you look, and machines costing well into seven figures are entry-level. A few years ago, many of the new cars debuting

Inside the Biden Administration's Gamble to Freeze China’s AI Future

Alan Estevez was sitting at his dining room table wearing a t-shirt when Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo called on Zoom to ask if he wanted to be the Biden administration’s top export control official. “You’re going to have to sell me on this,” Estevez recalls telling her. It was 2021, and the outspoken New Jersey native thought he had finally left public service behind. After more than three decades at the Pentagon, he had left and taken a job in consulting. He wasn’t sure if he was ready

Tough, smart and ahead of her time - how Dame Stephanie changed women's role in the tech industry

Tough, smart and ahead of her time - how Dame Stephanie changed women's role in the tech industry 3 hours ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman • @zsk Technology editor Share Save BBC To many women in tech, myself included, Dame Stephanie Shirley, who has died aged 91, was inspirational. Her pioneering and controversial decision to hire exclusively women coders and data inputters, working from home, was way ahead of its time and changed many lives. She had a difficult life, and it made her tough. She w

New James Bond Movie Will Be Written by Creator of ‘Peaky Blinders’

The director came first, and now it’s the screenwriter. MGM just announced that Steven Knight, the creator of Peaky Blinders, has been hired to write the next James Bond movie, which will be directed by Denis Villeneuve. News of Knight’s hiring was first reported by Deadline before being confirmed by the official 007 account. According to the trade, since Villeneuve’s hiring, producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman (who are shepherding the franchise) have been focusing on finding the right writer

Rivian’s new Quad-Motor R1T and R1S beat the competition in any conditions

Rivian provided flights from Albany, New York, to Reno, Nevada, and accommodation so Ars could drive the quad-motor R1s. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. It's getting harder to find hyperboles to describe the performance of modern EVs. Horsepower figures measured in four digits and acceleration figures clocking in well under three seconds aren't exactly de rigueur, but they're well short of rare these days. Rivian's latest generation ticks those boxes, joining the automaker's range

A Super Mario Maker 2 player has cleared an astonishing 1 million levels

Super Mario Maker 2 was released six years ago this past Saturday. While Nintendo didn't do a whole lot to mark the occasion, one of the game's most dedicated players sure did. DSteves hit a remarkable milestone by becoming the first to clear 1 million SMM2 levels. The Twitch and YouTube streamer had hoped to reach that point by the game's sixth anniversary and got there toward the end of a 18-hour marathon . In fact, DSteves cleared 1,000 levels during that single stream. After the 999,999th

The Original Macintosh: Calculator Construction Set

The Original Macintosh: 35 of 125 Calculator Construction Set Author: Andy Hertzfeld Date: February 1982 Characters: Chris Espinosa, Steve Jobs, Donn Denman Topics: Software Design Summary: Chris tries to make a Steve-approved calculator The Calculator Chris Espinosa was one of Apple's earliest and youngest employees, who started work for the company at the ripe age of 14. He left Apple in 1978 to go to college at UC Berkeley, but he continued to do freelance work during the school year, like wr

The Steve Jobs Archive shares stories, videos, and notes of his famous commencement speech

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ famous Stanford commencement speech, and the Steve Jobs Archive has marked the occasion by uploading an HD version of the speech, publishing notes Jobs emailed to himself, and sharing details about the leadup to the speech. You can see everything on a page on the Steve Jobs Archive’s website and watch the HD video on YouTube.

See the bullet points behind Steve Jobs’ famous Stanford speech, plus new video

Today the Steve Jobs Archive is commemorating the 20th anniversary of Jobs’ famous commencement address to the 2005 graduating class at Stanford University. A newly enhanced video version of the speech has been released alongside a digital exhibit containing artifacts, including Jobs’ own personal bullet points of speech ideas. ‘Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish’ is new digital exhibit from Steve Jobs Archive The Steve Jobs Archive just launched a new digital exhibit titled “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish,

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There's a Steven Universe sequel series in the works at Prime Video

It's been five years since the Steven Universe saga ended, via a final season and movie that took the story into the future. Now, it's coming back, according to a report by Deadline . Prime Video is working on a sequel series, with franchise creator Rebecca Sugar in tow as an executive producer (and hopefully as a songwriter.) This doesn't look to be a straight sequel series, in that the focus is shifting away from Steven, the Crystal Gems and Beach City. Instead, the tentatively-titled Steven